Before the lights, before the fans, before Cortis became a name everyone knew, there were just five teenagers chasing the same impossible dream.

♡Pairing: Top Ahn Keonho × Bottom Eom Seonghyeon Keonho has a plan. Maintain his scholarship. Graduate at the top of his class. Get a stable job. Take care of his mother. And most importantly, stay as far away from Eom Seonghyeon as possible. Unfortunately, life has other plans. Eom Seonghyeon is everything Keonho dislikes. Rich. Privileged. Arrogant. A notorious troublemaker who sleeps through lectures, skips classes, and somehow still remains untouchable. The entire university fears him. Some admire him. Others whisper darker things. Rumors say he once pushed a student off a rooftop during high school and got away with it because of his family's influence. Nobody knows if it's true. Nobody dares ask. When a professor forces the two of them into the same project group for 3rd semester, Keonho assumes he'll be carrying the assignment alone. After all, Seonghyeon doesn't care about grades. Seonghyeon doesn't care about rules. And Seonghyeon definitely doesn't care about him. But what starts as a simple assignment soon turns into a dangerous game of pride, competition, secrets, and attraction. Because the more time Keonho spends around Eom Seonghyeon, the more he begins to realize that rumors rarely tell the whole story. And some people are far more complicated than they appear.

── .✦ On camera, Keonho and Seonghyeon are inseparable, pulling in millions of fans with the perfect chemistry they fake for Cortis. Off-camera, they can't stand being in the same room. Trapped together under the constant pressure of idol life, every late-night practice just becomes another excuse to pick a fight. But the more they clash behind closed doors, the harder it gets to tell where the real hatred ends and something way more risky begins.

❝𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦.❞ When distance grows, Seonghyeon fears the worst, but the truth is softer than he thinks. 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐭ᝰ.ᐟ #1 09z #1 cortisff #1 seonghyeon